Pitch van 19e eeuwse veldaantekeningen tijdens de studiedag Googelen door archieven op 13 oktober 2016 bij het Nationaal Archief. Door L. Schomaker en G. Mühlberger zijn als reactie op de pitch de mogelijkheden van automatische tekstherkenning en -analyse benoemd.

1. PITCH:
Handwritten Fieldnotes as
Digital Challenge
Presentation: Dr. Andreas Weber (STePS, Universiteit Twente)
Technical comments: Prof. Lambert Schomaker (ALICE, Groningen University)

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THE COLLECTION
FIELDNOTES OF H. KUHL (1797-1821) AND J.C. VAN HASSELT (1797-1823)
• ca. 2000 or more handwritten and
illustrated fieldnotes by H. Kuhl and
J.C. van Hasselt
• Fieldnotes are digitized, but never
fully studied owing to their complexity.
• Stored in archive of Naturalis
Biodiversity Center.
• For historians: reveals writing and
recording practices of travelling
naturalists.
• For biologists: unique view on
biodiversity of maritime Southeast
Asia in the early nineteenth century.

3. 18/10/2016Making Sense
MISSING LINK
LINKS WEAK
OR MISSING

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HISTORICAL REALITY: STRUCTUREDNESS …
Species name
Name of
draftsman
Place names
Recurring
categories
(dissection)
Tables

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… VERSUS COMPLEXITY (1)
German
Latin
MIX OF
LANGUAGES
ON ONE PAGE!

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SLOPPY
WRITING!
… VERSUS COMPLEXITY (2)

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POOR PAPER
QUALITY!
… VERSUS COMPLEXITY (3)

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SPECIES AND
PLACE NAMES
HAVE CHANGED!
… VERSUS COMPLEXITY (4)
Place names
Species names

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DIFFERENT
WRITERS ON ONE
PAGE!
LATER
ADDITIONS
… VERSUS COMPLEXITY (5)

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… VERSUS COMPLEXITY (7)
TEXT AND
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTERTWINED ON
ONE PAGE